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Summer sides

Shartel Cafe5116 N. Shartel 843-0900 It’s hard to imagine anything better than the house-made cookies. The best-seller is its white chocolate cranberry walnut. But the cinnamon rolls are heavy hitters, too. Hey, people will eat those things any time of the day or night. The soul-warming mac and cheese or the pasta salad — made […]

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I Saw the Devil

Although “Devil” opens with a snow-filled scene shown in the South Korean film’s trailer, viewers’ nerves are on alert nonetheless from frame one as we await the stunningly inevitable: the murder of a pregnant woman stranded on the roadside by the serial killer Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi, “Oldboy”). The madman may have picked wisely out of […]

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smag 7

Jam out and chow down Here are seven places to hang when you want to catch some musical talent and tasty cuisine. These places have developed loyal customers that chill out, and not to worry, you don’t have to get all gussied up. Here, it’s all about the food and music. —Carol Smaglinski, photos by […]

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smag 7

Full steam ahead The following seven are a few of the newest restaurants to open in the metro. In most establishments, customers come back again and again when their experiences of quality, taste, value, ambience and service are all met. Try these out. —Carol Smaglinski, photos by Mark Hancock and Shannon Cornman $$: Up to […]

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Successful seven

If you’re looking for gainful employment at a superior organization, he advises to look for these lucky seven characteristics common to all of them: 1. A clear mission and purpose for being 2. Forward-thinking, creative senior management, matched with a caring, well-trained staff 3. Meaningful work 4. Reasonable, understandable and uniformly enforced work rules 5. […]

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